An accountant, Adelani Afolabi, has filed a N50 million 'libel' suit against the chairman of the Queens College (QC) Parent-Teacher Association (PTA), Lagos, John Ofobike and 11 others. Afolabi, a former treasurer of the PTA, filed the suit at the Lagos High Court in Igbosere, through his counsel Rotimi Igbayiola. Joined as second to 12th defendants are: Vice Chairman, Yetunde Shittu; probe panel chairman, Tajudeen Oyekunle Amodu and PTA members including Victor Onukwe, Eyilayo Amodi, Catherine Temitope Nwadu and Martha Ezeh… Read more

Queen’s College is back on her feet again”, so says chairman of the school’s Parents-Teachers Association, Mr John Ofobike. Speaking during a thanksgiving service to commemorate the school’s 90th anniversary Tuesday last week, Ofobike said the government has called back the children because everything is in place in a new Queen’s College. He described the degeneration of the school’s facilities and contamination of water sources that led to the death of three pupils early this year as a challenge the… Read more

The Senate on Tuesday urged the Federal Ministry of Education to urgently address infrastructural upgrade at Queens College, Lagos, following the death of three young girls due to overpopulation. Chairman, Senate Committee on Women Affairs, Binta Masi, made the call in a motion on “The Poor State of Infrastructure in Queens College, Lagos,” presented at plenary. She decried the sorry state of infrastructure in Nigeria’s oldest all-girls unity school, saying the facilities had deteriorated to the point of endangering the… Read more

The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) has flayed calls by the President of Queen’s College Old Students Association, Mrs. Frances Ajose, seeking Queen’s College’s privatisation. ASCSN Secretary-General, Comrade Alade Bashir Lawal, regretted that the outbreak of diarrhoea in the school, provided impetus for renewed calls for the privatisation of Unity Schools. “In a normal society, what should concern genuine patriots, including old students, is to see how the health issues in Queen’s College can be brought under… Read more

The Lagos State Government has insisted on continuous closure of Queen's College, Lagos, where three students of the schools recently lost their lives to outbreak of diarrhea disease. State Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris who addressed journalists yesterday after a meeting with officials of the Federal Ministry of Education and the school authority in Alausa, said the school cannot be reopened as the water samples from one of the multiple water delivery points still poses concern with regards to… Read more

The Lagos State Government on Tuesday insisted that the Queen’s College, where three students recently lost their lives to cholera outbreak, would remain closed. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, who addressed journalists after a meeting with officials of the Federal Ministry of Education and the school management in Alausa, said the school cannot be reopened as the water samples from one of the multiple water delivery points still pose safety and portability concern. Idris said there are… Read more

The management of Queens College, Yaba, Lagos, has yielded to the demands by the Lagos State government and Unity Schools Old Student Association (USOSA) to stay action on its planned resumption. It was gathered that the management had sent an SMS to parents, directing them to bring their wards on Sunday. Lagos State Commissioner for Health Jide Idris, at a briefing last Thursday, advised that the resumption be delayed till appropriate measures have been put in place for the pupils’… Read more

The Lagos State government has recommended that Queens College, Yaba, delay its resumption till appropriate measures are in place for the safety of its pupils. According to Commissioner of Health Jide Idris, the recommendation was necessary to ensure that all sources of contaminants in the school, which have been causing the death of pupils be properly handled. Idris said the source of the problem was contaminated water. The commissioner said: "Available health records from the sick bay showed that the… Read more

The Lagos State Government has recommended that Queen College delays its resumption till appropriate measures are taken to ensure the safety of the students. According to the state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, the recommendation is necessary to ensure that all the sources of contaminants in the school which had been causing the death of students are properly handled. Idris said the source of the problem is contaminated water. "Water samples from six sources in the school premises were… Read more

Queen's College Yaba, which lost two of its pupils to poor sanitary condition, is to wear a new look on resumption on March 19 after its mid-term break. The school’s facilities are being overhauled by its old girls, reports KOFOWOROLA BELO-OSAGIE. When pupils of Queen's College, Yaba, resume from their extended mid-term break on March 19, they will meet a number of changes in the school. Their dormitories would be sparkling clean with the walls washed or repainted, damaged mosquito nets… Read more

•We welcome the ministerial probe and hope it will get to the root of the matter WHAT killed two students of Queen’s College, Yaba, Lagos? This is the main riddle that a ministerial inquiry into the circumstances that led to the death of the students as well as the cases of the other students who took ill after they reportedly ate spaghetti and drank water that they said was contaminated, has to resolve. Often referred to as the “sister college”… Read more

Parents are bitter about how their children are being treated at Queen’s College, Yaba, Lagos Mainland, where two pupils have died from drinking unclean water. Vivian Osuinyi died of diarrhea on February 14; Itula Bithna died of typhoid on February 22. The girls, who were junior secondary pupils, died at home after falling ill in school The Parents Teachers Association (PTA) Chairman, Mr John Ofordike, said he was called to the school three months ago to attend to a medical… Read more

The Federal Government is to investigate the death of two pupils of Queens College, Yaba, Lagos, Health Minister Prof. Isaac Adewole said yesterday. The pupils, a statement issued by the Ministry said, died at home. The cause of death nor when they died was not stated. Their death followed the reported outbreak of diarrhoea in the school, which is on mid-term holiday. The statement said the minister got a distress call on diarrhoea outbreak at Queens College, while in Lagos… Read more